Humanity's Fight for Survival, With a Cat Crashing the Party

The stars fell, and the earth split open.

Wu Xunxun darted from place to place, hiding from trappers, when she accidentally ran into a beam of white light from beyond the heavens.

When the cat woke up again, she found herself inside a survival game designed for humans. She froze, and so did the System.

The System tried to fix the bug, but failed.

The game continued to run normally, accepting any player who yearned to live.

And so Wu Xunxun became the only anomaly in this vast survival game.

The first step of the beginner's quest was to set a [Nickname] and a [Goal].

Following its usual procedure, the System issued quests and a beginner's gift pack. Players only had to complete the beginner's quest to awaken their talents and officially embark on their survival-game journey.

But Wu Xunxun got stuck at the first step.

She was a cat. She couldn't use a human's axe, chop wood, or build a safehouse.

Without a safehouse, she couldn't awaken a talent. Without a talent, she couldn't continue in the survival game.

In the spirit of treating a dead cat as if it were still alive, Wu Xunxun dragged over a fallen branch and tried to negotiate with the building system.

"Build!" "Build!" "Build!"

Her paws smacked the buttons floating in midair.

After who knew how many swipes, the panel in the air warped, and the cat managed to exploit a bug:

A shoddy safehouse made from shoddy materials appeared.

[...Beginner's quest complete. Awakening player's talent now.]

[Talent: Little Cat, Big Ambitions]

★★★★★★★

In a world where the happier you are, the more dangerous things become, [Happiness] is equivalent to a creature's health bar.

The happier you feel, the closer you get to being corrupted by ■■.

But the more you suppress yourself, the more you suffer. The thing life finds hardest to resist is happiness.

Every year in the survival game's world, people break down from suppressing themselves too much. Some choose death, while others embrace ■■ completely and become living husks.

The world has no choice but to seek help from beyond.

Cultivators, mages, iron men...

Powerful people from all kinds of worlds joined the fight. Some were even specialists in training their mental strength.

But when faced with ■■'s temptations, players fell one after another.

The System had never placed its hopes in a cat who'd wandered into the game.

Even if she had an unknown ancient bloodline.

Even if she repeatedly came close to losing herself in ■■, only to escape again.

How could a tiny cat, with neither a strong body nor a particularly resilient mind, save a world that was steadily sinking into ■■, especially when she kept driving her [Happiness] through the roof just for fun?

Humans liked her.

But they didn't dare go near her.

After all, it would be ridiculous to be tempted by ■■ and turned into a husk just for petting a cat.

Until one human, worn down by too much suppression and thinking he might as well enjoy himself before he died, gave her a hug.

His [Happiness] rose rapidly.

But ■■ did not take his soul.

Only then did the cultivators identify Wu Xunxun's true form.

She was a Feifei, a creature whose sight dispels sorrow.

And she was also a black-and-white cow cat.

*My take on a cat who's adored by everyone

*Cow cats are just adorable

Premise: Hard work brings prosperity, and cats are no exception